Polls have closed in Malta after citizens voted in a snap general election, with Prime Minister Robert Abela's centre-left Labour Party (MLP) widely expected to secure another victory in the European Union's smallest member state.
More than 341,000 residents were eligible to vote before polling stations closed at 10pm on Saturday (6am on Sunday).
Beforehand, polling suggested Abela's governing MLP party was ahead of Alex Borg's conservative Nationalist Party (PN).